Bernard Lortholary Book order (chronological)

Schlink, internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of "The Reader, " brings a sleek concision and moral acuity to these seven tales of modern men uneasily suspended between the desire for love and the impulse toward flight. Brooding, comic, and filled with psychological suspense, "Plights of Love" is nothing less than masterful.

Film tie-in edition of Bernhard Schlink's exceptionally powerful novel - 'A thriller, a love story and a deeply moving examination of a German conscience' [Independent on Saturday]

„Alles, was über dieses Buch gesagt werde kann, ist nur tastendes Nebenher. Man muß es selbst nachlesen, Zeile für Zeile, wie hier aus einem oft lieblichen Zusammensein von Ironie und Pietät die drohende Strenge des letzten Gerichts auftaucht. Mit diesem Buch nun wächst er vollends in die Nähe großer, zeitlos-prophetischer Kunst, eines Dante, eines Hölderlin. Was einer stammelnden Generation versagt blieb, woran sie sich ekstatisch verblutete: in diesen Fragmenten tritt es als künstlerische Vollendung in unsere Tage.“ – Hans Sahl

La contrebasse est l'instrument le plus gros, le plus puissant et le plus indispensable de l'orchestre, le plus beau aussi, dit d'abord le contrebassiste. Mais bientôt l'éloge pompeux laisse affleurer les frustrations et les rancoeurs du musicien et de l'homme. Et peu à peu la haine d'abord refoulée de cette encombrante compagne s'exprime, se déchaîne et explose jusqu'à la folie... Ce monologue tragique et drôle, par l'auteur du best-seller Le Parfum, tient l'affiche en Allemagne depuis des années. Interprété à Paris par Jacques Villeret, il a reçu un accueil triomphal.

In America, Kafka leads the reader through a world of strips, hotels and offices that grow stranger and stranger and more comic and bewildering, the more realistically the author describes them.

This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; Meditation, a collection of his earlier studies; The Judgement, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; The Stoker, the first chapter of a novel set in America and a fascinating occasional piece, and The Aeroplanes at Brescia, Kafka's eyewitness account of an air display in 1909. Together, these stories reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.